Can RSS be a social network?
Back in 2022 I wrote a bit called textcasting. I felt it was so important it deserved its own domain. Textcasting summarized the wrong turn we took when Twitter took over discourse, basically stripping all the features the web needed to be a great writing environment. Textcasting said this is what we have to have to get back on track. Meanwhile all I wanted was a nice little social network to use with a few of my programming buddies. To bootstrap a simple distributed network based only on web standards, with every part replaceable. I thought you could do it with RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL…
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